Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1
Author: Peter Rawlings
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2018-01-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351223445

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.

Tropics of Haiti

Tropics of Haiti
Author: Marlene L. Daut
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2015-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1781388806

A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about ‘race’ affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.